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Two horses pull a large mechanical farm implement across a field, with two men, a boy, and another figure positioned nearby.

Horse drawn binder at Isleham c.1900 (MoC)

Isleham Data

Isleham Data

1844 William Brown, the Isleham constable was attacked after calling at the Harp Inn at 11pm to check that it was cleared of customers. Constable Brown was seriously injured but survived. He recognised his attackers and they were sentenced to be transported for 15 years:

William Brown 1844


A man in a suit stands by a horse on the riverbank while many people in formal attire crowd onto a flat-bottomed wooden boat.

Possibly a Chapel outing on Isleham river (MoC106/70)


Fenwomen : A Portrait of Women in an English Village by Mary Chamberlain, was based on interviews carried out in Isleham in the early 1970s. It is an important record of women’s lives in the Fens in the 20t. century.


Mike Petty’s Scrapbook

https://archive.org/details/IslehamScrapbook/mode/2up

Isleham  (10)

 

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